Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Care bodies demand crisis talks with Osborne over support shortfall

Care bodies demand crisis talks with Osborne over support shortfall Care homes will close, say four health bodies in letter to ministers, and ask what has happened to £6bn from care-cap savings

Leading care and health bodies are demanding crisis talks with ministers over the unravelling of measures in George Osborne’s spending review that were supposed to prop up the tottering social care system.

Four groups representing care and health organisations are warning of an accelerating rate of closures of care homes and companies providing homecare. Their warnings follow analysis by the two most respected NHS thinktanks which declared Osborne’s support package “another setback for people who need social care”. Continue reading... The Guardian

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